The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding

Smart and accessible, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding is the definitive text on branding, pairing anecdotes about some of the best brands in the world, like Rolex, Volvo, and Heineken, with the signature savvy of marketing gurus Al and Laura Ries. Combining The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding and The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding, this book proclaims that the only way to stand out in today’s marketplace is to build your product or service into a brand - and provides the step-by-step instructions you need to do so.

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th Anniversary Edition

It's an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communities, and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside 14 such remarkable companies.

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country's business and management philosophers" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant work, he looks to the most influential position in management - the executive. The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done". This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive.

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

The first book to deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public, Positioning describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind, one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors.

Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts

How can we create and market creative works that achieve longevity? Holiday explores this mystery by drawing on his extensive experience working with businesses and creators such as Google, American Apparel, and the author John Grisham as well as his interviews with the minds behind some of the greatest perennial sellers of our time.

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Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising

Best-selling author Ryan Holiday, the acclaimed marketing guru for American Apparel and many bestselling authors and multiplatinum musicians, explains the new rules and provides valuable examples and case studies for aspiring growth hackers. Whether you work for a tiny start-up or a Fortune 500 giant, if you're responsible for building awareness and buzz for a product or service, this is your road map.

All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World

Every marketer tells a story. And if they do it right, we believe them. We believe that wine tastes better in a $20 glass than a $1 glass. We believe that an $80,000 Porsche Cayenne is vastly superior to a $36,000 VW Touareg, which is virtually the same car. We believe that $225 Pumas will make our feet feel better, and look cooler, than $20 no-names...and believing it makes it true.

Get Out of Your Own Way: How to Overcome Any Obstacle in Your Life

You think you know what you want in life. You've tried to achieve those things. But if you still don't have them, the culprit may be closer than you think. In this perspective-altering program, the world-renowned Pitbull of Personal Development(tm), Larry Winget, exposes the things you are doing right now to unknowingly prevent your own success in the most important areas of your life.

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

In an audiobook that challenges everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd

To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn't get done.

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last? Face it, the checklist of tired P's marketers have used for decades to get their product noticed - Pricing, Promotion, Publicity, to name a few - aren't working anymore.

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two years - to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Why do some products get more word of mouth than others? Why does some online content go viral? Word of mouth makes products, ideas, and behaviors catch on. It's more influential than advertising and far more effective. Can you create word of mouth for your product or idea? According to Berger, you can. Whether you operate a neighborhood restaurant, a corporation with hundreds of employees, or are running for a local office for the first time, the steps that can help your product or idea become viral are the same.

Differentiate or Die

Best selling author Jack Trout doesn't beat around the bush. He takes marketers to task for taking the easy route too often, employing high-tech razzle-dazzle and sleight of hand when they should be working to discover and market their product's uniquely valuable qualities. He examines successful differentiation initiatives and outlines the many ways you can achieve differentiation.

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years to create unique results in both life and business - and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say yes - and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His 35 years of rigorous, evidence-based research, along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior, has resulted in this highly acclaimed book. You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader - and how to defend yourself against them.

The Robert Collier Letter Book

The Robert Collier Letter Book is by far the top book on writing sales letters. But it goes beyond that. As every great copywriter knows, these techniques are directly transferable to the Internet, whether through web copy or email or whatever. This book earned Robert Collier the distinction of being one of the greatest marketing minds in history. Robert Collier's sales letters were successful because he wrote to his audience's needs.

Scientific Advertising

This short listen is recommended by David Ogilvy, Jay Abraham, and many other masters of marketing. It contains many principles that are common in Internet marketing today, such as the idea of testing and measuring ad effectiveness, writing to one person, understanding and using psychology, etc.

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly

The benchmark guide to marketing and PR, updated with the latest social media and marketing trends, tools, and real-world examples of success The New Rules of Marketing & PR, 4th Edition is the pioneering guide to the future of marketing, an international best seller with more than 300,000 copies sold in over 25 languages. It offers a step-by-step action plan for harnessing the power of modern marketing and PR to communicate with buyers directly, raise visibility, and increase sales.

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Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

"You’ve seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation. What you don’t know is that someone is responsible for all this. Usually, someone like me. I’m a media manipulator. In a world where blogs control and distort the news, my job is to control blogs—as much as any one person can."

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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Why do some products capture our attention, while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? This audiobook introduces listeners to the "Hook Model," a four steps process companies use to build customer habits. Through consecutive hook cycles, successful products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back repeatedly - without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging. Hooked is a guide to building products people can't put down.

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn't be this way. There is a formula for success that's been followed by the icons of history - from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs - a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek.

Publisher's Summary

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing can mean the difference between success or failure for your product or company. Calling upon over 40 years of marketing experience, authors Al Ries and Jack Trout use vivid examples and fascinating anecdotes to explain the keys to today's tough, competitive marketplace. Learn how to avoid the danger of ego and arrogance, the need to understand trends, and many other crucial marketing lessons, as Ries and Trout point you solidly in the direction of success. With sparkling clarity and brilliant insight, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing shows how to play by the rules and become a winner in your field.

This is a fantastic book for anyone interested in marketing. The format is 22 rules, alternately spoken by each of the authors.

Full of great insights and interesting stories about marketing campaigns of various companies that succeeded and failed. It does however show it's age a bit in some of the examples, being nearly ten years old, but that doesn't take away from the value of the book.

Highly recommend for anyone thinking in business or thinking of starting one. Even if you're not in business, the anectdotes and stories will be interesting to most people none the less.

To be expected, 22 laws is a listing of 22 laws, one at a time. Each is ok-ish, but nothing more than that if you have a business or marketing degree. It is old and although not outdated, has lost most of its sparkle. Get the 2-page outline of the 22 laws instead and you know it all.

Whilst listening to this book for work, I was transported to another time. A time of New Coke, IBM, and a Donald Trump 1.4 billion dollars in debt. Generally fun to listen to, and filled with us full information.

Some decent tips on how to stay at the top of your game with any size business, and a history lesson of all the ups and downs with some of the biggest companies ever. However not much of a marketing lesson with present marketing strategies like social media, direct marketing or any other marketing campaigns.

This book wasn't very good. First of all, it is very out dated. It uses examples of companies from 5-25 years ago (Old coke/new coke type of thing). Also, the "laws" that it covers do not apply to 99.9% of the business's out there. It gives some more general laws that I feel are more appropriate for Fortune 500 companies. A lot of what it cover is branding and creating/defending that brand. It is also not a very long book. The audio portion of the book was fine, well read, easy to listen to... The content is just 2 star's in my opinion.

Right, just to make this clear, I wasn't listening exclusively to this, I was listening to it while playing poker, so my opinion can't be trusted completely, but I was sufficiently taken with the 'book' to write a review.

It's quite short, well read and doesn't spend time labouring over insignificant details. There's nothing ground breaking in this book and the majority of it's content is based on branding and the principle of being the first to market, the first into the customers mind and therefore becoming 'The Brand' by default.

There's a lot small businesses can take from this and, although almost a cliche in marketing circles, they make some very valid points as to why 'micro niching' is better than being all things to all people.

They use many examples (in American big business) where they show a company starts with a very specific market and business, then expands only to lose what made them big in the first place and ultimately fall apart.

To summarise, short, concise, well read, sufficiently engrossing and I expect to listen to this repeatedly. I didn't give it 5 because I don't feel many who are involved in marketing will find anything particularly new.

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Anonymous

8/7/17

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"Very outdated"

Perhaps useful when it was released but I don't see why Audible are still selling this.

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shmichael

Israel

10/6/16

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"outdated and unsubstantiated"

The authors provide very little empirical evidence for their laws. each law is "affirmed" by 1-3 stories about companies that adhered or stayed from the "law" and the inevitable outcome. For instance, the first law cites companies such as Jeep as being successful because they were first. I could easily think of many companies who became #1 because of their product, not timing. e.g. Google.

Furthermore, if I were to believe the authors were marketing gurus and take their advice at face value, some predictions they make, for instance MCI overtaking IBM, erode any confidence I have in them.

Most laws are uninspiring and sometimes contradict each other. for instance, law #3 directly contradicts #1 ("it is not important to be first, as much as it is important to be perceived as the first")

Some of the examples, such as Trump and New Coke, are repeated multiple times. Is it that hard for the authors to substantiate their laws using a variety of examples?

Finally, the examples from the book are all from early 90's and quite outdated.

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Cheryl M.

12/1/15

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"Great information, but a little dry"

Would you listen to The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing again? Why?

Really, really useful information in here, the laws are very true and very clearly defined, however the tone of both authors who are reading the book can be a little monotonous, and therefore a little hard going. Being a short listen its not too much of a problem

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

A little more vocal variety.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Its all really good information

Any additional comments?

Its a really good short book, it was very useful for me to have a look at the rules as they were describing them, I found on a good search some fantastic mind maps of the rules. Would be fantastic if this could be included with the purchase of the audible book. as a downloadable PDF.

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Lisa & Josh

London

7/24/15

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"Marketing in a nutshell"

This is a really quick and easy listen, possible to get through in a single sitting.

The content discussed is invaluable for any business person, not just the marketer.

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S. Nanra

Ealing, United Kingdom

11/3/13

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"Vital for everyone in business"

What about Al Ries and Jack Trout ’s performance did you like?

Straightforwrd - albeit American - delivery

Any additional comments?

Gives you the reality of getting your marketing messages out there. Where to focus, what works and importantly, what doesn't.

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Gregorious

UK

4/13/13

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"Great Laws"

Really enjoy this book have listened multiple times and have put some into practise and it is surprising how effective they can be. I did however read Tim Ferriss first and it led me to this audible book! Be prepared to reflect on your current ways of doing things and look to improve your marketing with the use of this book! A must listen/read

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